Frame for making shade-cloth



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F. SGHWANHAUSSER. FRAME FOR MAKING SHADE CLOTH.

No. 351.206. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

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.F. SOHWANHAUSSER. FRAME FOR MAKING SHADE GLOTH.

No. 351,206. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

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PATENT FRAME FOR MAKING SHADE-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,206, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed June 19, 1885.

T0 ztZZ whom it'mtty concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK SCHWAN- HAUSSER, of Jersey City, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Making Shade-Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improved frame to be used in the manufacture of shadecloths of considerable length; and the invention consists of a cloth-stretching frame that is suspended from hangers pivoted to the beams of the building, said hangers being raised by cords and pulleys, and supported in raised positionby pivoted and spring-actuated hooks applied to the beams. The lower end of the cloth-frame is provided with a suitable tackle for stretching the frame after the cloth has been sized and placed into raised position, so that the frame is out of the way of the next adjoining frame back of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 rep- I resents a plan of a factory arranged with my improved frames for making shade-cloth. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the beams, showing a cloth-frame in section and the means for suspendingihe same. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical transverse section through the beam on line a: a, Fig. 1, showing the supporting-hook for the hanger of the cloth-frame, and Fig. 4 is a detail side view of the hooked. rod for transferring the lifting-cords from the front to the rear pulleys of the beams.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the supporting-beams of a factory for making shadecloth. To the beamsAare pivoted a number of hangers, B, from which are suspended by pivot-rods B the cloth-frames O, which are stretched by suitable tackle, b b, connecting the lower end of the frames with eyes b on the floor. In front of each hanger B is pivoted to the beams a spring-actuated hook, D, that oscillates at right angles to the beam.- A cord, E, is attached to the lower part of the hanger, and passed either over a pulley, d, in front of the hanger or over a pulley, (1, back of the same, as the case may be, according to the progress of the work. By pulling the cord E the hang er B and the cloth-frame G are raised in the position shown in dotted linesin Fig. 2 until the Serial X0, 160,165. (No model.)

hanger passes sidewise of the pivot-hook D, so as to press it back until the spring D of the same throws it below the hanger B, and supports thelatter in inclined position. The cloth-frame is thereby raised above the ground, and is then in a position to be stretched by the stretching tackle.

The cloth-frames are preferably made about sixty feet in length, and are supported on six hangers applied to every fourth beam of the building. About six inches back of the first row of hangers B is pivoted at the other side of the beams a second set 0.1. hangers, to which is hung a second clothframe, while a third cloth-frame is suspended from a third set of hangers, pivoted about six inches back of the second hanger to the second, sixth, tenth, &c.,

beam, while the fourth hanger is suspended from a fourth set of hangcrs appliedto the other side of said beams. The fifth and sixth cloth-frame afe pivoted in the same manner to hangers of the third, seventh, eleventh, &c., beam, the seventh and eighth cloth-frames to the fourth, eighth, twelfth, beam, and so on, so that a large number of cloth-frames is hung at intervals of six inches from hangers of the beams.

The cloth is applied to the cloth-frames when they are in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2. \Vhen the cloth has been applied to the cloth-frame, it is sized, after which the cloth-frame is raised, so that the hangers B are supported on the hooks D, as shown in dotted lines at the right-hand side of Fig. 2. In this position the cloth is stretched, by pulling the tackle, and allowed to dry. A cloth is then applied to the next following frame 0, sized in the same way and raised in the same manner as the first cloth and stretched. After the cloth on every frame has thus been sized, placed into raised position, and stretched, they are allowed to remain in this position until the shade-cloths are perfectly dry. The last cloth-frame is then lowered first by releasing thchooks D by means of the cords D, Fig. 3, and painted in oil at both sides, when oil shade-cloths have to be made, and then raised into the position shown in dotted lines at the lefthand side of Fig.2 by transferring the cords E to the rear pulleys, d, by means of the hooked rod F, (shown in Fig. 4,) and attaching them to the floor. In this position the cloth-frames do not require nfactnre of long shade-cloth is facilitated and expedited.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- V 1. The combination ofthesupportingbeams, hangers pivoted to the beams, intermediate pivot-rods, acloth-frame, spring-pressed hooks pivoted to the beams, and stretching-tackle connecting the lower part of the cloth-frame with the floor, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination ofthe supporting-beams, pivoted hangers, intermediate rods, a clothframe, pivoted and spring pressed hooks, stretching-tackle connecting the floor with the lower part of the cloth-frame, cords attached to the hangers, and pulleys applied to the beams in front of and back of the hangers, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK SOHWANHAUSSER.

\Vitnesses:

PAUL GoErEL, SIDNEY MANN. 

